Ashildr/Me's personality has continued to evolve with the centuries; she's now the hard-nosed mayor of the trap street and willing to do anything to protect it. The Doctor might have avoided all or some of this if he'd just let an innocent young Viking girl die in the 6th century instead of saving her in a way that made her immortal. Which, in turn, might have happened if he'd let Caecilius and his family die, rather than saving him and remembering his face. Rollason, Jane. "Level 2: Doctor Who: The Girl Who Died: Jane Rollason: 9781292206134". Book Depository. Three Norns or Fates of mythology were Clara, Ashildr, and Willa Twiston. ( PROSE: The Witchfinders)

Struan Rodger previously provided the voice of the Face of Boe in three episodes between Series 2 and Series 3. The Doctor, Clara and Rigsy are trapped on an alien street in London, that is hidden from the rest of the world. As he is adapting a Mire helmet, the Doctor claims he is " reversing the polarity of the neutron flow", a phrase said many times in various ways during Doctor Who, beginning with the Third Doctor. [1] Ashildr, the immortal hybrid-girl, is taking care of some of the most dangerous creatures in the universe. Not everyone will get out alive; one of them must pay the price and face the raven. The Doctor revealed he had come to the same conclusion and was thus planning to erase all Clara's memories of him and leave her someplace safe. Me then entered the Doctor's stolen TARDIS and witnessed his final confrontation with Clara in silence. ( TV: Hell Bent)The episode has a moody setting and involves a supernatural corvid and the notion that one should come to terms with a beloved person's death by other means than seeking and enacting revenge on the people responsible. Hm... Me had set up a chess game, though she and the Doctor didn't play. She remarked that the dying stars were a beautiful sight; when the Doctor said that it was sad, Me retorted that it was both, and the same was true of Clara's death, now a fixed point in time. She inquired about the Hybrid, which the Doctor accused her of being. Me countered that she was a human with a little bit of Mire, not a true hybrid. She then suggested that the Doctor might be half-human and thus he was the Hybrid. As the Doctor refuted that suggestion, Me offered her true theory: the Hybrid wasn't a single individual, but a Time Lord and his human companion, so alike that they constantly push each other into more and more catastrophic actions. Both the Doctor and Ashildr are this way with Clara. For her part, Clara demands a simple "yes or no" answer from Ashildr at one point. Clara also uses this when trying to calm the Doctor down.

Rigsy's portrait of Clara that adorns the TARDIS doors in the post-credit sequence is based upon a publicity photograph of Jenna Coleman used to promote her appearances at science fiction conventions. Senseless Sacrifice: Clara sacrificing herself for Rigsy. It turns out that Ashildr had always intended to let Rigsy go once she got what she wanted from the Doctor.Tempting Fate: Lampshaded when Ashildr says that a Cyberman is perfectly safe, which the Doctor comments is usually followed by violence and screaming. The Doctor informs Me that the imminent Great Fire of London was caused by the Terileptils, referring to the Fifth Doctor story, The Visitation (1982). [1] [2]

Bargaining: Clara to the Doctor, "We can fix this. We always fix it," followed by her asking Ashildr if she's certain nothing can be done. The Doctor's freak out against Ashildr also reflects this. The Doctor's chilling threat to Ashildr at the end also counts: "You'll find that it's a very small universe when I'm angry with you." Super-Persistent Predator: The Doctor says that once the quantum shade is bound to a victim "You could flee across all of time and all of the universe, it would still find you." Clara dies simply because she wants to help a young father return home safely to his child. On a larger scale, because she aspires to be more like the Doctor. Head writer and executive producer Steven Moffat said about having Williams on Doctor Who, "We're thrilled to have Maisie Williams joining us on Doctor Who. It's not possible to say too much about who or what she's playing, but she is going to challenge the Doctor in very unexpected ways. This time he might just be out of his depth, and we know Maisie is going to give him exactly the right sort of hell." [5]

Tropes:

The Doctor's willing to renounce his name and call in UNIT, the Cybermen, the Daleks — anything to destroy Ashildr, the trap street, and its residents if she can't save Clara. Clara has to talk him down because she knows that the threat actually isn't completely OOC for the man once known as the War Doctor. Although she'd hardly dressed sloppily earlier, Clara's "final" outfit is actually somewhat more formal-looking than usual. In the credits, the word "Oods" is used to denote more than one Ood, rather than the established "Ood", as used in TV: The Impossible Planet. Complexity Addiction: Ashildr could have just invited the Doctor for tea and drugged him or something — he has no real reason to suspect her. Instead she stages an elaborate deception, endangering several people's lives, because she needs to separate him from his TARDIS key and get his confession dial. Enemy Mine: Although Clara calms him down before we find out if this was anything more than Freak Out-related bluster, the Doctor claims that not only is he capable of bringing recognized allies such as UNIT and the Zygons down upon Ashildr and trap street, but he's willing to bring in his mortal enemies the Daleks and Cybermen as well. This is not a threat as he (and we) know they would both come to kill.

A deleted scene included with the DVD/Blu-ray release indicates that the Doctor and Clara had a run-in with Derren Brown - who may or may not be an alien — that resulted in the performer being declared persona non grata by the Doctor.The Woman Who Lived" · Doctor Who · TV Review The Doctor Who lives forever, and the woman who never asked to · TV Club · The A.V. Club". The A.V. Club. 25 October 2015. Soon becoming bored of life, Ashildr turned to living a double life as a criminal, stealing the riches from wealthy people while also living as "Lady Me" with a servant, Clayton, whom she gradually became bored with. By this time she had become cold, detached and saw little meaning in life since by her point of view their lives were like smoke. She also became bitter at the Doctor for not taking her with him in his travels and leaving her to move through life. Clara, not because of the fact she made a mistake that costs her her life, but she when realizes her impending death could cause the Doctor to "rain hell" upon not only Ashildr but a large number of innocents. The Doctor threatens Me to save Clara, saying that he will bring UNIT, the Zygons, the Daleks, and the Cybermen down on her trap street.